There’s a catch with this tomato sauce: when you serve it to guests, they have no idea what it is or what to expect! Indeed, we’ve all been trained to think that tomato sauce should be red.

Aside from their startling color, yellow tomatoes have a slightly less tomato-y flavor than their show-off sisters, but they make up for it with a little extra sweetness. Here the delicious fruits are slow-simmered with fennel seeds, saffron and a hint of spice, yielding a sauce that’s richly flavored and incredibly refined.

This sauce is wonderful with pastas, of course, but it’s absolutely superb with these homemade gnocchi. Moreover, it freezes quite well… so when yellow tomatoes are in season, it’s definitely worth making an extra batch!

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Here’s another superb sauce to make when heirlooms are in season: Classic heirloom tomato sauce

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